@Mothersnakes@shahnm I do listen to a lot of music, but I don’t much like it when they talk a lot. Tell me the name of the artist and song, if you’re feeling particularly wordy, the album, then shut up. It’s a shame radio can’t do that anymore.

I love actual play RPG podcasts. I listen to The Glass Cannon Podcast, Androids & Aliens, The Adventure Zone and Nerd Poker. I’m also in one too if that’s your kind of thing. It’s called Adventure Awaits.

@JT954 Yes. Best case, you have a thing with podcasts on it – a smartphone, 10 year old iPod, Zune, whatever. Your car probably has an aux in. So you can probably run a male-to-male connector between your thing’s headphone jack and the aux in.

Recent cars also tend to be able to pair with smartphones using Bluetooth, so that you can play phone audio out of the car’s speakers, not just phone calls.

There are also bluetooth -> aux in adapters, which can be nice to avoid physically connecting your phone to your dashboard, if you don’t have bluetooth in the car.

Some cars have USB ports that support flash drives or iPhones specifically, so there are possibilities there.

A car with an internet connection probably has some kind of podcast client, or Stitcher, if that’s still a thing (boo Stitcher).

If your car hasn’t got a USB port, Bluetooth, some built-in support, or an aux in jack, then there is this kind of thing.

@hems79
It did start out slow, but they really had some great episodes where some of their ideas got made. Check out both episodes of “Tommyball”, but only after you listen to episode 4, where they make the idea.

@DVDBZN@tinsami1 There was one called Pragmatic. Don’t know if it’s still running, but it got into some engineering topics, like popular “tech” shows used to be about (before it all became business). I stopped listening because I wasn’t paying enough attention, but all the episodes are still sitting on my phone… I’d probably recommend giving that a look.

sometimes, The Incomparable (rotating panel of cheerful “geek” people talking about media they like–television, books, comics, movies). Joe Rogan (skipping most of the fighters and comedians, long interviews with scientists and drug people, interesting to listen to).

All the President’s Lawyers is interesting – actual lawyer talk about legal stuff that’s been in the news. It’s odd that their perspective doesn’t seem well represented in the general media.

Then the odd programmer podcast.

I’ve been thinking I should probably delete all the news, popular, political, and “same people talking to each other every week about {whatever}” shows. It’s a bit much.

@goldnectar I kind of think it is propaganda and media that got Trump elected. You see nothing but calorie-free media forever and you (“you” meaning, Republican primary voters) could almost be forgiven for mistaking Trump for being as (un)worthy as the next man.

If you know any good political podcasts, don’t be afraid to share them. I haven’t come across any that I enjoy much, and I’ve listened to a bunch. Hardly any political media wants to stick to what is true or to provide the full context necessary to understand a story. It’s all noise, when it isn’t slanted, when it isn’t deceptive on its face.

True Crime podcasts…because there’s nothing like hearing all about the scum of the earth. The best ones are when they’ve solved the crime and you don’t have worry that the perp is still out there, watching you.